noun

• (boxing, martial arts) A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.
  "[…] the immovable McCoy let fly his most miraculous punch of the evening, of his lives, a world-beater of a right corkscrew, a punch years in the windup […]"
• (amusement rides) A type of inversion used in roller coasters.
  "A corkscrew has a 90° turn just prior to the loop and a 90° turn just afterward."

verb

• (intransitive) To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.
  "Into the tea–room Mr. Pickwick turned; and catching sight of him, Mr. Bantam corkscrewed his way through the crowd and welcomed him with ecstasy."
• (transitive) To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape.
  "Caught and twisted—corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahab’s boat."
• (transitive, informal) To extract information or consent from someone.
  "I strongly suspect (from what Small has dropped, and from what we have corkscrewed out of him) that those letters I was to have brought to your ladyship were not destroyed when I supposed they were."